Infectious diarrhea in the southeastern United States, 1998-2000 [1]

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 533-534

  Safdar, Amar ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; EDWARDSIELLA TARDA; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GIARDIA; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HEMORRHAGIC COLITIS; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; PLESIOMONAS SHIGELLOIDES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTAVIRUS; SALMONELLA CHOLERAESUIS; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SHIGELLA SONNEI; UNITED STATES; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRUS INFECTION; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DIARRHEA; HUMANS; SHIGELLA SONNEI; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037442627     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/367620     Document Type: Letter

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